[Illustration] The pedigree begins with Geoffry Starky, of
Barthington (Barnton) in Cheshire, supposed to be the same with
Geoffry, son of Richard Starkie, of Stretton, in the same county, an
ancient family which can be traced almost to the Conquest. William
Starkie was of Barnton in the seventh of Edward IV. Huntroyd was
acquired by marriage, in 1464, with the heiress of Symondstone.
See Whitaker's Whalley, 266, 529; also Ormerod's Cheshire, i. 474;
and Baines, iii. 309.
Younger branches. Starkie of Twiston, and Starkie of Thornton,
Yorkshire.
ARMS.--_Argent, a bend between six storks sable_.
Present Representative, Le Gendre Starkie, Esq.